I'm looking at a few jobs in SF on craigslist and no one seems to list compensation of any sort (salary, bonus, equity) for a Front-End Developer or PHP Developer.<p>Any idea what average salary is for someone with 2+ years and plenty of demo's?
I recently interviewed in SF area, and as a result did quite a lot of research on salaries, cost of living, benefits, etc, etc.<p>A typical salary in the Dallas, TX area for a software engineer like you describe is in the $60K ballpark plus benefits. To achieve a comparable standard of living in the Bay Area, you'd have to get <i>a minimum</i> of $85K + benefits, and it's probably closer to $100K + benefits after considering taxes and other hidden costs that I didn't have time to discover.<p>All that is simply to make an educated guess based on standard-of-living equivalence, of course. I have only very vague ideas of what actual pay scales in SF are.